Recently addicted to this song

 


Totally agree with the lyrics. I think we'd all feel some kind of emptiness after a particularly impactful chapter of our life.

Haha. So much for understanding the lyrics and making it part of our life. The song was apparently written about being born.

But love it still XD

Old rock songs are still the best!

~*YN*~ Vices- books and music.

Finally went to get the backing for my quilt.

I guess the chills in the middle of the night finally got to me. But 老了 what can I say?

Met Kiap after that and went for dinner.

Another classic shot:



Kiap and her Louisiana gumbo with rice and garlic bread.


My poached some fish or another sans the pumpkin soup.

Its nice to eat at Iluma. It was so empty... Hmmm. Maybe because its not dinner time yet?

Came home and suddenly felt like listening to hokkien gua.

The song that came to mind was none other than

  

若是我有一百万 一百万 我有一百万 一世人就轻松
无讲无人知 讲到真paiseh 吃到呢么大 还不曾坐飞机
打拼彼多年 无车无钱 也无爱人 看人娶老婆还做生意 有钱又有势
若是我有一百万 我要坐飞机 我要游世界hawaii晒太阳 日本吃寿司
若是我有一百万 我要买车买屋 山珍吃海味 啥人这么福气来乎我做某
若是我有一百万 一百万 若是你有欠用钱 开嘴免客气
若是我有一百万 我要坐飞机 我要游世界 义大利饮咖啡 路边吃spaghetti
若是我有一百万 我要买车买屋买店来收租 闲闲免做工 带狗去散步

Oh whee~ I could think of so many different ways to better spend jibaban.

But now I would gladly settle for jibako


Not that its mine... Taken just before it was used to pay the bill.

Someday I can do that too.

In the meantime....
  


~*YN*~ 人生海海需要人了解，有时要清醒有时就青菜。

I'm a firm believer in not waking up until you absolutely have to.

Especially now that the hols are taking a toll on me. With no specific goals days just drag out and overlap.

I woke up at 9 am today determined to not go book hunting. (it just doesnt make sense to shell out $3+ for transport when reservation only cost $1.5)

Glad to say that I didnt succumb but the book is still not on loan!!! I just kills me to sit at home while knowing that said book is sitting on a shelf somewhere waiting to be borrowed!!!

Ok. Ok. Shall try to reign it in.

No more impromptu trips to AMK lib and the likes for books >.<

~*YN*~ 喊一声心情不一样了

I totally had a breakdown during driving today.

There I said it.

*bangs head on table*

Not that its the first time it happened but at least I only started to crack when I stopped somewhere safe and regained myself before I went off.

Small consolation for huge embarassment.

Damn the hormones.(and the ever ready tear glands)

~*YN*~ Somewhere in this darkness, there's a light that I can't find.

Warning. This is a very long post.

I dropped PL1101E.

More nua-ing at home or nua-ing with Aud since she quit her job too.

What I do when I nua at home....


I dug out the hair dryer and blew my fringe straight.

I

自拍 with bro. I think we kinda look alike.

Then i started to clear my desk drawer.

OMG I have stuff in there that dates back to 1995 >.<



Apparently I wrote a letter to my mom. Somehow I only have the envelop (Polly pocket!) and nothing inside.

Above this almost relic were a whole stack of cards and letters that I recieved throughout the years....

Some of the more interesting ones are

From Hiuyan... More touchign than interesting bah... Miss her >.<


I have at least 4 cards from Aud. This seriously 无厘头。


This is 夸张。


From Madame... Now I finally remember why Aud had so many "flings" XD

And I also have a habit of keeping my movie ticket subs
.
I probably have more that I stashed somewhere...


And of course will have some class stuff....


I totally love this pic! My brainchild!


The silly names.


I think Ade sent me this... I havent had a picture of myself alone printed out for quite a while.


This is hilarious in retrospect... My face is totally obscured by someone else's tie.

More random things I found:


Lol. Look who's talking. We were supposed to write down our first impressions of out orientation grp mates in sec 1


WoHoo~ Magnetic bus cards! Spice girls some more! this is like collectors item lah


Another one of the campaign nonsense. I'm proud to be the producer of nonsense XD

Had more stuff to put up but its loading so slowly!!!

~*YN*~

I am so glad that I didnt try to revive my CS3 right after it died or I would have been the one who's dead for exams.

The problem started with some kinda licensing error. And it was suggested that I uninstall and reinstall CS3.

But after do that  N no. of times and getting the same error msg I was getting close to just breaking the CD in half.

The tech support line sucked >.< so much waiting for nothing.

So, today I

1) uninstall CS3
2) started windows vista in simplified mode
3) dl and run Windows installation cleanup utility
4) dl and run CS3 cleanup script at level 3
5) install CS3 again

Voila~



And it all got done in 1.5 hours.T.T

All the time wasted and frustration felt before this was totally unneccesary.

I should have went online and read other ppl's rantings on the horrors of installation process.

Sheesh.

~*YN*~  Not looking back in anger. Just annoyance.

Some things are all in the mind.

I had my first driving lesson on monday and anyone who bothered to listen to my rantings know that I'm really nervous about it.

I think it stemmed from failing btt when everyone said anyone can pass on first try. I was 血气方刚 (erm.... can this be used on a girl?) then and would probably have felt excited instead.

My first round was done in stunned silence while the istructor grabbed the steering wheel.

Must have looked something like this.... only more terrified than happy.

And yes I survived.

Apparently I "perform better under stress".
.
I can remember almost everything I learnt though.

Luckily I had JM to share funny stories with me yesterday. Thanks Kiap!!

For that I shall not retell the stories here XD

Watched Blood: The last vampire. So different from the manga... not that I'd known that much since I only read 2 chapters.

But I did some research and found out that it started out as an anime movie, spun off to manga and novels (Blood+) then into live action movie.

Wah the Blood + premise is really not bad... will watch when I have time.

BTW JM: saya feed the blood to kill the demon cos it will crystallise the demon's blood.

~*YN*~ I guess I'll die another day, it's not my time to go.

Wohoo~ I've finally got some photos of the elusive PFs in action.


From left: baskethead, hothead and pothead

Ok. this is the best picture I've got of the 3 of us. Fully understandable that I'm the only one with a weird expression.

It all started with the trip to Katib for haircut (madame) and farewell to chin length hair posing as fringe (me).

Went on my maiden trip on 969 despite having taken the 2 other buses at the same bay for years. Reached Katib in 20 minutes. So amazing.


Me, still can't find the right place to look at.

Finally. more of my forehead is being covered.

But I still dun trust the stylist enough to cut my hair >.< We all know the inevitable emo-ness that will surface after a bad haircut.....

Tried the pork bun at Tamp one and I'd have to say that the bun was worth queueing for.


Student meal: 3 buns and drink for only $2!

The idea is the same as 锅贴 dumplings, only this is the 小笼包 version.

I'd have to say its not bad and to eat it while its hot. Oh, and I totally forgive the ppl who block up the entrance to queue for it.

Then headed down to Ikea for dinner!


Aud's first time at Ikea bistro!


Our tray of food. (yes. the chicken wing's mine)

I gotta say that whenever the PFs meet for dinner, mischief's around the corner.

Somehow we manage to polish off all the food and develop all sort of weird 三角关系 between them.


Madame feeling compelled to put on a bib.


The sad piece of potato, that was eaten last gets pretty for the last time.


High class yuan yang made with earl grey tea.

Surprisingly fragrant and soothing to drink. Which explains why I'm typing this entry at 2 am in the morning.


Refillable coffee for dinner is never a good idea.

Then madame decided to try something that she got out of 流星花园 (taiwan).

Coffee with salt. Dun even try. It sucks. In a big way.


In her own world

Of course, the day doesn't end till we try to destroy something in our path.


Aud and Madame doing product testing


I am TALL!

Then out of the kindness of our hearts, we rescued an elephant trapped in a glass cup....


... only to put it in  a cocktail shaker ....


and something that looks like a dim sum basket.

Ah.... All the crazy things we do together, my dear PFs.

Others may not understand how we can stand each other's nonsense, but Aud (and Ikea) seem to know the answer.



~*YN*~ 2am and I'm still awake

Have been listening to late night radio these few days.

Lots of new songs only some are nice. That only fueled my believe that songs that are said to be oldies/classics and favourites are the best songs.

How else are they heard so long after they are first introduced?

Went to the supermarket with my mom yesterday and ended up carrying 3 kg of stuff back home.

This weighed 1kg.



I came back home and chopped it all up XD

Its nice to have some chin chow once in a while. I kinda missed drinking it with soya bean milk almost everyday when I was a kid.

maybe that's why I was so fat....

I finally got my hands on a copy of tangled up in you. In tamp library, no less. Wasted money travelling to other libraries the past week :(



I can't help myself. I'm a total book freak. I had to take a picture XD

Currently there are 16 books lying on my newly installed shelf and about half of them are half read.

This is bad. really bad.

~*YN*~

Oh whee~ look at this!!!!


Yesh! I passed on first try. Totally redeemed myself XD

Oh and I applied for PDL. But the thing is.... After studying for the ftt the thought of actually driving terrifies me T.T

So much goes on with the pedals, we just don't get to see it :(

Went to visit my aunt the other day and saw my cousin's son.

OMG. The babies today are really big sized. He's like 5 months old and weighs 10 kg!!!!!





Compare my nephew's legs to my aunt's arm.... I think his legs are as thick as my upper arms(which are thick btw).

He's one happy kid (albeit on a diet, yes his mom put him on a diet. I can totally see why).

As long as you smile or have a laughing tone while talking to him he'd smile back. XD

So after we put him to sleep my other aunt feed me a basket of mangosteen.

Seeing as Aud had her first mangosteen not too long ago, I shall share a tidbit of info on it.

To know how many seeds are in the fruit, flip it over and count the no. of "petals".

The one on the left had 8 and the one on the right had 6 seeds.



~*YN*~

Ok. I'm feeling better today. And I think I figured out why I'm turning emo.

I'm totally a tv junkie esp for American dramas that almost always involve cops, dead bodies and sob stories.

Then after frying my eyes on the comp I read about 30 something women, hunky guys, crazy families each completed with a sob story and sometimes ridiculous plot.

Argh. I would like to get out more but I'm starting to feel the drain on my reserves.

On a lighter note, I present Jo's cute puppy!



Ok great. Now that I look at the picture on screen Kira did a better job at locating the camera than I did :(

Nevertheless, Thank you Geok for taking the picture and dumping Kira on me.

I actually held him for quite a while...

Another first for me. I've had this adversion to holding fragile/volatile/squirmish living things for the fear of dropping them (babies and dogs) or them scratching(cats), grabbing my glasses/earrings (babies) or letting out a loud wail and do their best to get away from me while others give me the evil eye(mostly babies).

But Kira was really 乖 *muppet face*

I've added an album of photos dedicated to him. I seriously need a better camera, I have several frames that were totally empty.

Then went swimming with Aud after the visit.

I seriously dun rmb terrorising other swimmers while I was having lessons years ago.

OMG almost half the pool was filled with high energy children trying to out swim each other.

That really can't be good for anyone. Its times like these that I really wish I lived in a condo, irregular shaped pool and all.

~*YN*~

No idea why. Shall blog abt the golden furball/ bundle of joy I met yesterday tomorrow.

 

You know you're in trouble when you start reading books with more abs on the cover than you see in flesh.

Yes. I just fell into that category.

I thought the heavily ab-ed guys, curvy females with half her boobs exposed and their impossibily perfect long hair blowing in different directions ( so where's the wind coming from?) was a thing of the past or at least strictly restricted to historical romance.

Obviously I'm wrong. I actually have 2 books that have guys with manboobs bigger than mine T.T

Went on a book hunt today. Look at the results


OMG 13 books. I have no idea if I can finish readin all of these on time.

I think my shelf is groaning under all that weight. it sure didnt have any free space left >.<

Keep thinking that I'd learn not to be so greedy.

But when it comes to books (chocolates, soba, chicken wings, bags and clothes), I just can't help myself.

~*YN*~

... to slow you down, that is.

I havn't really been sick for a while and for that I thank all my lucky stars.

Getting sick is always the get out of jail free card for me.

I think I need to start swimming again. Be healthier.

Especially after eating desserts like these....





Funny looking scoop of icecream wonder why they must flatten the thing. The regular scoop might fall off?

~*YN*~

I think this holidays is the most (money draining) and happenning one in my life.

I havn't spent 2 consecutive days at home yet.

I guess that's a good thing given that I didn't do too badly for my exams.

Ok. I'll admit it. This is my best sem yet!!!!!

The only thing I can't understand is how I got B- for chem of the ocean. Wah. The science student in me is totally scratching the wall in frustration.

I've decided to not waste my S/U and let it be.

Went to HY's house for sleepover again. Her mama's steamboat soup base is really nice XD

And through that I've once again established that even though I'm not 21 yet I have the mental age of about 60.

Then went home at 630, was dead to the world for abt 5 hours before rushing out to meet Alvin and gang for another one of his sessions.

Realise that people can change a lot in a short period of time. Ok. so maybe they didnt change but I just didnt bother to find out stuff.

But it was great reconnecting and finding new material to have fun with XD

Oh. Another realisation. With the exception of Aud, none of the other ppl in the tms/mj gang ever takes pictures.

I totally dun have any picture to add to the post while I have to create a new album for the S202 gatherings.

~*YN*~

Madame and I were talking the other day and for some reason the topic went to Barbie and Ken.

They broke up in 2004 and according to wiki Barbie announced that they were back together on 14 Feb 2009.

I seriously dun get the point of this.

Being a spoilt brat with 8 Barbies (at least I think they are.... the look kinda different to me.) I never once thought about the need to get a Ken doll.

Whats the fun with having some guy doll with plastic painted on hair???

My Barbies were independent, confident, ambitious, atheletic bitches with perfect figures and fantastic hairstyles.

They basically  ruled the Chiang household toy world.

I had afternoons of fun planning their rock climbing trips, evening balls, math classes and shopping trips.

I think I made them go Godzilla flipping hot wheels and butt kicking my bro's power rangers.

Ah. Those were the days when entertainment was so easily achieved.

~*YN*~

Yes. One of my frens made a comment about how almost all the gatherings in Singapore will have something to do with food.

That's totally true.

After a (not very satisfying) K session, Madame Aud and me went to have dinner at this place at downtown east where I drank 3 cups of coffee and Aud had at least 10 scoops of ice cream.

Audrey, u are so lucky you dun get fat easily.

So we were chatting and the subject of MJ football came up.

Ok. It was bound to come up. I swear its the only constant thing on our dear madame's mind right now.

Which reminded us about last year's match.

As promised, here's the link to my ultra pissed off entry on my class blog.

22nd May 2008

Ok. I am still quite amused by it.

~*YN*~

She can sing!
 

Well we've heard it all before, "Paybacks are hell", "Karma's a bitch", blah blah.

The reason we keep hearing them are that they are tried and tested.

I had a dream last night and it must be some kinda the subconcious torture that I keep making myself go through.

Anyway it was about something that happened about 10 years ago?

At my aunt's house and my cousin was prepapring to go out to celebrate passing a module with a D grade.

And I think I said something like is it so hard to pass? what is there to celebrate?

Now I know. Its not actually celebrating the passing of the module but rather celebrating the fact that the worrying is over.

I think he mentioned taking the module a few times. And in the good old days, only the new grade will show up in the transcript. How convenient.

And I countered with "I'll NEVER let myself fail.". Ah. But I did.

Sec 3 A. math (eventually got A2)
A levels chem (got a B, I still have a personal vendetta against the subject)
BTT (look at previous post)

So yup. Karma's a bitch. I should really learn to never say never, cliche and all.

~*YN*~